Pay heed to private life
University lecturers in London should get much bigger salaries than their colleagues in the Northeast, argues Andrew Oswald. Britain and other industrial nations should make public-sector pay more...
University lecturers in London should get much bigger salaries than their colleagues in the Northeast, argues Andrew Oswald. Britain and other industrial nations should make public-sector pay more...
If universities can't set their own fees, they will sink. David Greenaway and Michelle Haynes, and (below) David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, make the case for charging students up to Pounds 4,000...
The row over top-up fees escalated this week as the vice-chancellor of Teesside University called for elite institutions to forgo their public funding. In an outspoken attack, Derek Fraser set...
Universities face legal threat for favouring state pupils Universities that try to meet government targets on admitting more state school pupils risk falling foul of the Human Rights Act, funding...
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
Andrew Oswald bets you didn't know you could retire on two-thirds of your salary instead of half. Would you like to retire on two-thirds of your salary or just half? It is a tough one. If you are...
True scholarship involves a range of intellectual activities, writes Stephen Logan What are universities for? One function might be to maintain a degree of historical impartiality about the cultural...
Oxford hopefuls canvas for poetic licence Graduates of Oxford University go to the polls tomorrow to elect a professor of poetry - the most coveted post after poet laureate. Tomorrow's poll is the...
As one of the "media dons" profiled in previous THES articles, I read with great interest Andrew Oswald's article about university publicity ("Bushels: avoid, lights: turn up", THES, September 3)....
Unless pay soars, there will be no British economists teaching in universities by 2009, warn Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald Gavyn Davies looks dull. He is of average height, has greyish brown hair...
Huw Richards reports from the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society in Swansea on take-overs, pay and satisfaction. Research has challenged the economic theory of a direct relationship...
Universities praised for spin-out success There are now more staff working in technology transfer than before and more patents filed, benefiting universities by £22.4 million, according to the second...
Universities praised for spin-out success There are now more staff working in technology transfer than before and more patents filed, benefiting universities by £22.4 million, according to the second...
Economics in British universities is in crisis and pushing the annual salaries of top professors up to Pounds 100,000 may be the only solution, according to a report to be published next month. The...
Paying for parking is more likely to drive academics crazy than debates over their claims for a larger pay packet. Olga Wojtas and Alan Thomson investigate the different policies of universities...